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Dr. Martin has testified twenty times, including fourteen depositions, four trials, and two evidentiary hearings.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2011-2016) Dissertation: “Securing Medical Devices and Protecting Patient Privacy in the Technological Age of Healthcare” Doctoral advisor: Dr. Aviel D. Rubin
M.S.E. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2011-2013)
B.S. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2007-2011)
Professional Experience
Chief Scientist, Harbor Experts (2024-Present)
Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University (2023-Present)
Vice President of Applied Research and Technology, Harbor Labs (2023-2024)
Director of Firmware Security / Senior Research Scientist, Harbor Labs (2018-2024)
Research Scientist, Harbor Labs (2013-2018)
Ph.D. Candidate / Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University (2011-2016)
Graduate Intern, Applied Communication Sciences (2013)
Penetration Tester, University of Michigan ICPSR (2011)
Associate Research Scientist, Independent Security Evaluators (2009-2011)
Software Developer, Johns Hopkins University DRCC (2008-2010) Designed security architecture for a $20M digital preservation grant
Freelance Software Developer, Brandeis University Computer Repair Shop (2008)
Analysis, Design & Development Clients Arai, Baxter, Bigfoot Medical, BT Group, Cardiac Sciences, Dyadic, Fresenius, HLFIP Holdings, Hospira, ICU Medical, Inexto, Intuitive Surgical, Merlin, Orpheus, Security First Corporation, Smart Solutions IP, Texas Instruments, Thesys, Vaxxin
Teaching Experience
2026 Security and Privacy in Computing, Lecturer
2025 Intermediate Programming, Lecturer
2024 Security and Privacy in Computing, Lecturer
2023 Security and Privacy in Computing, Lecturer
2015 Introduction to Hardware Hacking, Instructor
2012-2014 Security and Privacy, Teaching Assistant
2011 Practical Cryptographic Systems, Course Assistant
Patents
US 10,762,214 B1 — System and Method for Automatically Extracting Information from Binary Files for Use in Database Queries
US 10,230,599 B2 — System and Method for Network Traffic Profiling and Visualization
US 9,667,521 B2 — System and Method for Network Traffic Profiling and Visualization
US 8,984,583 B2 — Healthcare Privacy Breach Prevention Through Integrated Audit and Access Control
US 9,438,632 B2 — Healthcare Privacy Breach Prevention Through Integrated Audit and Access Control
Publications
P. Martin, D. Russel, M. Ben Salem, S. Checkoway, A. Rubin, “Sentinel: Secure Mode Profiling and Enforcement for Embedded Systems,” Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI ‘18), 2018. (Google Scholar)
P. Martin, M. Rushanan, T. Tantillo, C. Lehmann, A. Rubin, “Applications of Secure Location Sensing in Healthcare,” Proc. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB ‘16), 2016. (Google Scholar)
J. Carrigan, P. Martin, M. Rushanan, “KBID: Kerberos Bracelet Identification (Short Paper),” Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC ‘16), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9603, Springer, 2016. (Google Scholar)
P. Martin, M. Rushanan, S. Checkoway, M. Green, A. Rubin, “Classifying Network Protocol Implementation Versions: An OpenSSL Case Study,” Technical Report 13-01, Johns Hopkins University, December 2013. (Google Scholar)
P. Martin, A. Rubin, R. Bhatti, “Enforcing Minimum Necessary Access in Healthcare Through Integrated Audit and Access Control,” Proc. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics Health Informatics Symposium (BCB-HIS), September 2013. (Google Scholar)
Open-Source Contributions
Technicomp Benchtop Linux (2026-Present) Creator of an immutable GNOME-based Linux distribution for x86 and ARM workstations. (Technicomp Labs)
Charm: A Framework for Rapid Cryptographic Prototyping (2010-2012) Contributor to Charm, an open-source rapid prototyping framework for advanced cryptographic algorithms, developed at Johns Hopkins University.
Current Research
Automated binary version extraction for NVD cross-reference based on fuzzy matching.
Automated analysis of vulnerabilities in containers and virtual appliances.
Large-scale comparison of the nature and kind of firmware vulnerabilities across and within product classes.
Quantifying vulnerability divergence and patch lead time between rolling and enterprise Linux distributions: whether rolling distributions are more secure against known and unknown CVEs, whether enterprise distributions should be based on rolling LTS packages, and whether distributions should converge on shared soft-forked package versions so that maintenance effort can be pooled rather than duplicated. A planned follow-up extends the same analysis to programming-language package managers.
Performance analysis and optimization of local large language model inference, including forecasting of architecture and parameter-scaling trends across frontier, open-weight, and agentic models.
Security analysis of AI integration software, including source-code evaluation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementations, and large-language-model security.
Use of large language models for certain types of technical research and analysis.
Use of multimodal large language models for diagnosis of disease progression.
Professional Committees & Standards Bodies
IEEE 7024 Working Group — “Standard for the Procurement, Verification and Validation, and Life Cycle Management of Forensic Technologies” (Secretary)
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Winter 2024)
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Summer 2024)
Honors, Memberships & Certifications
Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Computer Science Honor Society
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Computer Science Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2014), Johns Hopkins University
Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt, Six Sigma Integration, Inc. (2009)
Professional & Academic Service
Judging
HopHacks Judge (2025, 2026)
ACM Programming Competition Site Judge (September 7, 2015)
Mentoring
Ingenuity Project Mentor, Yitzhak Oshry (2014-2015)
Departmental Service
Treasurer, Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Computer Science Honor Society, JHU Chapter (2014-2015)
Computer Science Department Faculty Liaison Czar, Johns Hopkins University (2013-2015)
Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department Educational Planning Committee (2013-2014)